Neutral tones
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- Created on: 25-02-20 17:13
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- Thomas Hardy
- Context
- Hardy married twice in his life time
- His first wife was Emma Gifford died in 1912
- His second wife Florence Dugdale died in 1928
- He never fully recovered from the death of his second wife. He was very depressed, and wrote lots of sad poems.
- Neutral Tones
- Colour
- Lots of dull, 'neutral' colors, White, grey, blacks.
- The colors he describes would have been what he would have seen on a winters day.
- Language
- Hardye uses strong and old fashioned words such as "chidden" to get across his anger
- He constantly repeats how dull the colors are in the scene.
- Techniques
- Hardye uses one similie to show us that the smug grin that comes across her face is "Like an omnious bird a-wing
- Colour
- Other books
- Jude the Obscure
- A book famously despised by his first wife Emma, because she felt to connected to the main character who was less than favorable.
- Jude the Obscure
- Other poems
- "The walk"
- Talks about Hardye taking a walk, and leaving his wife Emma behind because she is too weak and frail.
- "I found her out there"
- This poem talks about Hardye finding his wife on the edge of a cliff, but when he brings her home she is very ill, and is not mentally well.
- "The walk"
- Key facts
- Hardye and his first wife Emma did not get a long well, and Emma was even reported to have made Haryde build an attic so she could get away from him.
- Most of Hardye's work focuses on relationships he has been in, or things he has experienced.
- Useful Info
- Hardye died in 1928, meaning he saw the whole of WW1
- Hardye wrote 20 novels and 15 poem collections
- Most of his works are used for music, or turned into films or plays.
- Hardy did not follow religion much, but he went to anglican churches once a week.
- Good poems to compare with...
- Loves philosophy
- when we two parted
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